Category: Genesis

18 So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it. 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first. 20 Then Jacob…

38 Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Setting the Scene for Genesis 27:38 In Genesis chapter 27, we find the poignant scene where Isaac, the aging patriarch of the family, is preparing to…

1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. 2 The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.…

25 And Isaac built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well. Setting the Scene for Genesis 20:25 In Genesis chapter 20, we find Abraham and Sarah journeying to the land of Gerar. As they arrive, they encounter King Abimelech…

18 They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen. Setting the Scene for Genesis 25:18 In Genesis 25:18, we find ourselves in the desert region of Paran, where the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham and Hagar, settled. The scene…

1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh, 3 that I may make you swear by the Lord, the…

2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” Setting the Scene for Genesis 22:2 In Genesis chapter 22, we find Abraham and his son…

1 The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. 2 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him,…

22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do. 23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly…

1 Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar. Setting the Scene for Genesis 20:1 In Genesis chapter 20, we find Abraham and Sarah journeying to the land of Gerar. As they arrive, they encounter King Abimelech of Gerar. The scene…